Whenever I learned a new programming language in courses in my past, you always tested it out by writing a simple program that output the string “Hello World”. It allowed you to test out the basic functionality and see some of the core structural differences among the languages.

I don’t know much about this course, what it is about, or what I’ll learn from it, but I made a promise to myself to participate as much as I can, and contribute whenever possible and be fully open to exploring what a new learning opportunity and community could look like. My inspiration for joining this course came from lots of great dialogue online through twitter and also how much fun everyone on #ds106 where having with their animated gifs.

Anyway, its a short post as its time for a walk outside before it gets dark. I’m excited to once again to say “hello world” and look forward to the experience that this MOOC has to offer me!